My marriage to Rhonda broke up, and I fled north from Anaheim to Santa Barbara and stayed with Scott and Mary Jane for a while. Scott and I made flyers, packaging, displays and instructions for a game company. It was hard to get paid, though...Scott and I ended up raiding Skor-Mor's offices and confiscating dozens of backgammon boards after they failed to pay us. I came out of the deal with a trunkload of dice.

Colin with guitar at Scott's apartment/studio

Skor-Mor flyer

Skor-Mor display

Zap!, the game that turned out to be the best-selling new game of the year.

Matt had a job in the repair shop at Car Parts of Santa Barbara, where he later met and married the boss's daughter, Nancy.

But then Rhonda shacked up with some football player on the Detroit Lions, and moved back to Michigan, and after a few months, after Matt and I rebuilt my Fiat Spyder, I went back to Michigan, too. SIlly boy.

It was the worst mistake of my life. It was the nadir of the Oil Embargo recession, and there was no ad work to be found in Detroit, and I spent a couple years as a truck driver. And nobody had a camera.